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English Dictionary: The Virgin by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
The Virgin
n
  1. the mother of Jesus; Christians refer to her as the Virgin Mary; she is especially honored by Roman Catholics
    Synonym(s): Mary, Virgin Mary, The Virgin, Blessed Virgin, Madonna
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Virgin \Vir"gin\, n. [L. virgo, -inis: cf. OF. virgine, virgene,
      virge, vierge, F. vierge.]
      1. A woman who has had no carnal knowledge of man; a maid.
  
      2. A person of the male sex who has not known sexual
            indulgence. [Archaic] --Wyclif.
  
                     These are they which were not defiled with women;
                     for they are virgins.                        --Rev. xiv. 4.
  
                     He his flesh hath overcome; He was a virgin, as he
                     said.                                                --Gower.
  
      3. (Astron.) See {Virgo}.
  
      4. (Zo[94]l.) Any one of several species of gossamer-winged
            butterflies of the family {Lyc[91]nid[91]}.
  
      5. (Zo[94]l.) A female insect producing eggs from which young
            are hatched, though there has been no fecundation by a
            male; a parthenogenetic insect.
  
      {The Virgin}, [or] {The Blessed Virgin}, the Virgin Mary, the
            Mother of our Lord.
  
      {Virgin's bower} (Bot.), a name given to several climbing
            plants of the genus {Clematis}, as {C. Vitalba} of Europe,
            and {C. Virginiana} of North America.
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